There are two things which grow stronger in the breast of man, in
proportion as he advances in years: the love of country and religion.
Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later
present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the
recesses of our hearts an attachment justly due to their
beauty.--_Chateaubriand._
~Agitation.~--Agitation is the marshaling of the conscience of a nation to
mould its laws.--_Sir R. Peel._
Agitation is the method that plants the school by the side of the
ballot-box.--_Wendell Phillips._
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress.
Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of
animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.--_Wendell Phillips._
~Agriculture.~--Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the
productions of nature are the materials of art.--_Gibbon._
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she
can call her own.--_Johnson._
Let the farmer for evermore be honored in his calling, for they who
labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.--_Thomas Jefferson._
~Allegory.~--Allegories and spiritual significations, when applied to
faith, and that seldom, are laudable; but when they are drawn from the
life and conversation, they are dangerous, and, when men make too many
of them, pervert the doctrine of faith. Allegories are fine ornaments,
but not of proof.--_Luther._
The allegory of a sophist is always screwed; it crouches and bows like a
snake, which is never straight, whether she go, creep, or lie still;
only when she is dead, she is straight enough.--_Luther._
~Ambition.~--It was not till after the terrible passage of the bridge of
Lodi that the idea entered my mind that I might become a decisive actor
in the political arena. Then arose for the first time the spark of great
ambition.--_Napoleon._
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. The pride of
no person in a flourishing condition is more justly to be dreaded than
that of him who is mean and cringing under a doubtful and unprosperous
fortune.--_Burke._
If there is ever a time to be ambitious, it is not when ambition is
easy, but when it is hard. Fight in darkness; fight when you are down;
die hard, and you won't die at all.--_Beecher._